HourGlass

IBM® HourGlass is a leading z/OS® clock simulator for testing mainframe applications. The features and flexibility of HourGlass promote more accurate and reliable application testing with the ability to coordinate full functionality across time zones. HourGlass can simulate past, present or future dates and times without changing application code or computing environments.

Alter the Date/Time returned to a z/OS application when a time request is made (SVC 11 or PC Time Requests) by specifying patterns or specific applications, transactions, users, and address space names.

Simulate date and time processing for thorough application testing.

Coordinate reporting and data transfers across time zones.

Alter the Date/Time returned to a z/OS application

Utilize time dimensional testing for more reliable application development.